22 FRIDAY, AUGUST 2025
Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mem.)
Liturgical colour: White
Today’s Rosary: The Sorrowful Mysteries
FIRST READING
The beginning of the Book of Ruth 1:1.3-6.14b-16.22
Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess with her, and they came to Bethlehem.
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife Naomi and his two sons. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years; and both sons died, so that the woman was bereft of her two sons and her husband. Then she started with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab that the LORD had visited his people and given them food. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law and went back, but Ruth clung to her. And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” But Ruth said, “Entreat me not to leave you or to return from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
V/ The word of the Lord.
R/ Thanks be to God.
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